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Final Fantasy Creator Reveals Which Entry He Thinks Is 'Most Complete', and It's Not Final Fantasy 7 (www.ign.com)
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[–] 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)

No surprise it's FF VI. Absolutely peak final fantasy. Classic Uematsu soundtrack, great story with an iconic villain and a lovable cast. Active Time Battles and a phenomenal Esper system for customization. Square at the height of their pixel art powers with some beautiful sprites. Ultros, the opera scene, train suplexing...

It's a shame they kind of butchered the pixel remaster. I'd try playing a romhack version on an emulator if you're interested, preferably something based on Woolsey's wonderful translation (son of a submariner!).

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Whats the best rom hack to play?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I recommend Woolsey Uncensored, I think it's a really strong translation that combines the best of all worlds. The Dancing Mad mod was also recommended to me recently as a way to add uncompressed, higher quality music samples. I don't have any experience using it, but it looks like it should work on top of Woolsey Uncensored. Your mileage may vary, though.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I enjoyed the remaster, although I've only played the original once or twice. What about it did you find "kind of butchered"?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    It's not as bad as the mobile version from 2014 (seriously, go look it up if you don't believe me!), but I still prefer the original art and sprites. Butchered is maybe too strong a word though, that's more fair to say about the mobile version.

    EDIT: forgot to mention they used the GBA translation as a base and discarded many iconic Woolsey lines from the original, like "son of a submariner!". There are obviously a lot more changes but I'm not going to be full purist and claim everything was objectively better on the SNES just because that's the version I'm used to. You can look at the full differences here.

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